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Author Topic: Writer's Block !! You Kill Me !! (Dream Journal writing tips update)  (Read 4620 times)

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Sorry readers. For now this thread will be mostly posting writing tips to help get through writer's block. I will start another thread in the future and reboot the story of Moses and his friends. For now, it's writing tips to help those with writer's block. Thanks for your understanding regarding this matter.

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I am Moses. No not the one in the Bible. I am a working student here at the University. I am trying to write but cannot write anything right now. Why? It's probably because of Writer's Block. How the heck do I get rid of Writer's Block?

It is annoying. Yes, it is very annoying. You go to school there are so many ideas floating around your mind. You go to work, there are so many ideas floating in your mind. You come across something or someone, and it triggers ideas that you want to write about. In fact there are so many ideas that you come across the day.

Then when you get to school and get some free time, you sit down with the blank paper in front of you and .... and ... NOTHING! Not a damn thing to write about. It's like the ideas just disappeared. Meanwhile so many others have so many things to write. And I can't come up with anything right now. It's all a blank.

It's frustrating! It's annoying! It's downright depressing. Then you leave school and on the way to work all these ideas pass by your mind. Then when you leave work and go home, yet more and more ideas start to go across your mind.

You get home. Have a little snack. Sit down, and start writing. The pen just won't write. Or is it more like the hand won't write. Damn it! Maybe the hand is possessed by The Devil. He's probably getting a kick out of this.

I heated up the kettle so I can have some hot chocolate. Maybe that will help the creative juices flowing. Or maybe it won't. At this point who the heck cares.

What is Writer's Block? And how the heck do I get rid of Writer's Block?

What the heck is that smell? Something's burning from the kitchen I think. O snap! I forgot about the stove, I left the kettle boiling too long, it must have dried up.
« Last Edit: July 30, 2010, 02:26:48 pm by johnny_madrid »

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wow. kuya ken, saktong sakto to ah.
medyo may writer's block ako ngayon e. :D

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wow. kuya ken, saktong sakto to ah.
medyo may writer's block ako ngayon e. :D

Yeah. I think I'm going to write a story about the writing process and how to write yourself or work your way out of writer's block. Just a side story. My main story is still Babaero Incorporated. Pero perhaps this will help those of us who happens to have a writer's block at the time. Maybe we can get some ideas to work out of it. Diba.

« Last Edit: May 25, 2010, 03:19:00 pm by johnny_madrid »

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ayos ah. ang ganda nung idea. hehe.
i'll check this one out. :)

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WOW! ang sarap basahin parang may kung anung boses sa utak na nagbabasa neto para sakin, haha .. naka-relate lang  :D

Caza here.

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PART 2
« Reply #5 on: May 25, 2010, 03:33:43 pm »
... and the story continues

Oh no! Fire! I run to the hallway and grab the fire extinguisher. I run back to the kitchen and unleash the the fire extinguisher. I spray left to right and up and down. After all is said and done, the kitchen is a mess. Great. Just what I needed.

The phone is ringing. I go over to the living room and pick it up and look at the caller's ID. It's probably a telemarketer trying to make a sell and swindle the unsuspecting caller. Hmmm. That's weird. It says "Caller Unavailable". What a stupid idiotic thing for the programmers of this hand held phone. The caller has to be available for this phone to ring. Amazing. Technololgy gets to be a headache sometimes.

Do I answer, or do I not answer. It's like on it's tenth ring. What a persistent caller.

Screw it. I'll answer.

"Hello?"

"Hey Moses, it's me Yusuf. How's it going bro?"

DAMN! I should not have answered the phone. Every time this guy calls he's always in trouble with his girlfriend and wants to make me an alibi.

"Hey Yusuf. Everything is good man. What can I do for you?"

"Bro, I need a favor"

Now how come I saw that "I need a favor" coming from like miles away. This guy can never call without being in trouble. If I get a buck for every favor fromthis guy, I'd be a millionaire.

"What now Yusuf? You're always needing favors man. And it's never anything simple."

"Look bro, if my girlfriend calls you where I was last night, just tell her you and me were hanging out. Alright Moses?"

She's not going to believe me anymore. He's used that excuse too many times in the past. If we didn't go back from freshman year in high school, I'd have beaten up this dirtbag. But we've been through rough times in high school so...

"Okay Yusuf. If she calls, I'll say we were hanging out. Look man, this is the frigging last time I'm doing this favor for you. I'm not going to do it again."

"Yeah I promise Moses. This is the last time. I'm not going to do it again bro. You're the best bro."

And he hangs up. How come I had the feeling that his nose grew longer and longer when he said I was the best and that he'll never ask for a favor again. Ah Yusuf. What a pathological liar he's turned out to be. He wasn't like that back in high school.

And my cell phone started ringing. I go over the closet and get my jacket. I reach inside the pocket and look at the number calling me. Oh brother! It's Yusuf's girlfriend calling.

I am presented with a dillema. Do I answer the cell phone and lie once again to my friend's girlfriend, or just tell her the truth. I have decided that I will let the phone ring until it goes into voice mail and let her leave a message. And eventually the phone stopped ringing and the green light went on. She left a voice mail. Screw it. I'll listen to it later.

I need to get the kitchen cleaned up.

And all of a sudden, it's like I had a couple of ideas running in my mind. All this trouble sort of wiped away my writer's block.

Writing Tip:Here's the writing tips I came up with. I pick up my pen and get to the blank notebook. I can make a list. A list about anything.

My list of what about my friend that pisses me off:

1] Always making me the bad guy alibi to his girlfriend
2] Only calls when he needs a favor
3] It seems he's made a 180 degree turn in behavior since high school graduatiuon
4] His girlfriend calls me up when he's missing
5] She always thinks I'm covering for him

I could put more. But I guess to get out of writer's block you can write down lists. Lists of anything.


I don't feel like cooking. I think I'll just eat out. I grab my jacket and go downstairs and walk outside my home trying to decide what type of food should I eat tonight.
« Last Edit: June 06, 2010, 09:38:13 am by johnny_madrid »

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Lupet! Sarap talaga basahin, parang James Patterson lang.
Keep it up!  ;)

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Lupet! Sarap talaga basahin, parang James Patterson lang.
Keep it up!  ;)

Hmmm diba yung kay James Patterson parang suspense/thriller. Minsan lagyan natin ng ganon na scene.  ;D Pero pagiisipan ko pa kung paano para hindi forced ang dating ng scene.

WOW! ang sarap basahin parang may kung anung boses sa utak na nagbabasa neto para sakin, haha .. naka-relate lang  :D

Caza here.

Thanks for dropping by Caza. Ganon ba. Hmmm boses sa utak natin. Parang inner monologues diba? Yeah lagyan natin ng mga monologues. Haha. Feel free to drop by anytime.

ayos ah. ang ganda nung idea. hehe.
i'll check this one out. :)

Yeah drop by from time to time. Babagsakan natin ito ng mga pang tanggal ng writer's block na mga ideas. Well of course lagyan din natin ng story. Para kumpleto ang writing process.

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Sakto, pag nagbabasa ko ng Fang, ganito rin yung feeling eh!  :D
hahah  akala ko nga, horror toh nung una, hindi pala, ehe.

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Yeah drop by from time to time. Babagsakan natin ito ng mga pang tanggal ng writer's block na mga ideas. Well of course lagyan din natin ng story. Para kumpleto ang writing process.

ang ganda ng pagkasulat kuya!
dadaan talaga ako dito palage. :)

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ang ganda ng pagkasulat kuya!
dadaan talaga ako dito palage. :)

Sure dalaw lang ng dalaw. Welcome to read anytime dito.

Sakto, pag nagbabasa ko ng Fang, ganito rin yung feeling eh!  :D
ahah  akala ko nga, horror toh nung una, hindi pala, ehe.

Fang... yun yung tungkol sa bird kids yata diba?

Hindi horror. Sensya na. Although pag let's say natulog tapos binangongot yung character pwedeng gawin horror yung scene.  ;D Diba.

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haha  okay. next na.

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Hey! Yanyan here!
Support ko `to

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Hey! Yanyan here!
Support ko `to

Thanks Yan. It's very much appreciated.

haha  okay. next na.

The guy was on his way out to eat. Iniisip ko there's gotta be a way na pwedeng makakuha ng idea just on that basis. Pero I'm thinking paano ilagay sa semblance ng story.

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PART 3 ... had to add to it.
« Reply #14 on: May 26, 2010, 12:39:40 am »
Maybe I should just go to the local Deli store ang get a fresh hero sandwich made. Get something real quick and fast. I walked the four blocks to the local Deli. I get in and go by the counter.

"Yes sir, how may I help you?" The man asked behind the counter.

I gave him my order, "Let me get a hero. Pastrami, provologne cheese, with lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise. You know what make it light on the mayo just a little bit. And put some salt and pepper. And a little olive oil."

"Will that be all sir?"

"Yeah that's it." I go over to the cold storage area to get a soda. And there's just like so many choices all the time. You've got all these kinds of Iced Teas, sodas, juices. and all these bottled water.

I grabbed a bottled water. Then an old caucasian lady walked in with her dog in a leash. I always wondered why the times are so politically correct that we have to call her caucasian. Why not just call her the old white lady? Because the people say it's wrong and hurtful. Give me a break. You have too many people with no sense of humor in this country that takes offense about anything. They complain about everything. This country is too politically correct that you can't even have funny jokes anymore.

The old white lady and her dog. It's funny, she has her dog wearing a sweater. She may find that cute. But does anyone ask the dog if the dog wants to wear the damn sweater?

I bet she dressed up the dog in the sweater at her home. She went something like this: "There there cutie. You look so cute," the old white woman told the dog. The dog probably told herself, "Are you kidding me? This thing is tight on the neck I can't even breathe properly. How about if I put this sweater on you and see how you like it old woman?"

Yeah it probably wen that way. Dogs are animals, not  people. If the dog can talk, it would probably curse you out for the stupidity of some pet owners put them through.

The sad part is maybe that's her only family. Her kids and grandchildren probably don't even visit her, like the majority of people in the country. When the people get old, they put them to pasture. I'd hate to get old in this country. But mostly I'd hate to get old and lose my teeth and have to wear dentures. It's kind of scary to have teeth inside a clear glass of water next to your bed. If you happen to wake up in the middle of the night, and you look at those teeth and all of a sudden the dentures start speaking, "Hey don't touch me! Leave me alone dammit!"

That can be a horror movie or even a horror story. Like a funny one. Scary but funny.

You see. Walking around and you get all these ideas. Walking gets you out of writer's block. You get all these crazy ideas in your head.

Well I better head home and eat this hero sandwich while it's still fresh. So I grabe a soda, Sprite, and paid for the sandwich and the soda at the counter. Amazing. There's this old man betting like a hundred dollars worth of lotto. Geez all that retirement money every month, and he squanders it on lotto. Oh well, I wonder if your old, if wasting money on lotto doesn't matter to you since you are so close to meeting God soon. Or Yahweh. Or Allah. Or The Buddha. Or the Spirit Tree. Or whatever is the main deity of your religion.

Writing Tip: Hmmm that's another list you can make. If you know mythology by way of reading or watching it in the movies, why not make a list and create your own mythology. Make up the names of the main characters in your mythology, and write out a character background for each one. It doesn't matter how weird they are written. In fact the weirder, the better. It helps kick start the writing.

I walked out of the store and headed for home. A firetruck zooms by with its sirens deafening my ears. I think to myself, it must be a false alarm. Then another firetruck comes from another block and heads towards the same block as the other one did. I think to myself its just a coincidence. Then as I neared the corner block, an ambulance ir rushing towards where the firetrucks went. Okay. Now something is definitely wrong here. What could it be?

« Last Edit: June 06, 2010, 03:58:08 pm by johnny_madrid »

 

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